UNICEF Australia is using Coinhive — a crypto-mining service — to extract cryptocurrency through visitors’ computers and fund its ongoing mission in Bangladesh. The UN branch has long worked to provide humanitarian relief for both children and their mothers in developing nations. The organization has now created what representatives call the “Hope Page,” which allows users to donate through cryptocurrency.

UNICEF’s Director of Fundraising and Communications Jennifer Tierney explained, “We wanted to leverage new emerging technologies to raise awareness about current humanitarian crises and raise new funds to support children caught up in them. The Hope Page allows Australians to provide help and hope to vulnerable children by simply opening the page when they are online.”

Coinhive’s partnership with UNICEF could help to foster a more positive image for the software. Up until this point, Coinhive has widely been associated with a process known as “cryptojacking,” in which the computer processing power of individuals visiting certain sites is used to mine Monero without their knowledge or permission. In the past, Coinhive has targeted everything from government websites to even Google and YouTube users. As a result, Coinhive has been listed amongst the largest threats to web security.

In this case, UNICEF is using the software’s opt-in method to ensure visitors are aware of the organization’s intentions. While searching the Hope Page, web browsers use computer processors to solve cryptocurrency algorithms. Those examining the site can choose how much power (typically between 20 and 80 percent) they wish to donate to the task.

The website explains that the mining process is completely safe and offers the following instructional message:

“The longer you stay on the page and the more processor power you donate, the more algorithms get solved, which earns cryptocurrency … If you’re ever worried about power consumption, simply turn down the amount of processing power you’re donating. The cryptocurrency is automatically donated to UNICEF Australia and is turned into real funds that reach children through life-saving supplies like safe water, therapeutic food and vaccines. Turn the Hope Page into your homepage to give every day.”

Mining efforts will be used to fund the current Rohingya crisis. Several children and families that have fled their homes in Myanmar to escape military-led violence are now living in refugee camps in the neighboring country of Bangladesh and require certain necessities while they await placement.

Though part of the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF is not actually funded by UN efforts. Instead, it garners financial assistance through voluntary donations.

Visitors of the Hope Page are told that cryptocurrency mining isn’t free and may lead to further costs down the line. High amounts of electricity are used during the mining process, which may lead to higher energy bills for any donating individuals. In addition, the process is not tax deductible, and visitors are advised to consider cash or credit card donations prior to giving their mining consent.

This is not the first time UNICEF has used cryptocurrency to fund its global labors. In February, the organization launched Chaingers.io to raise funds for children of the Syrian civil war. At the time, the site was using the cryptocurrency mining software Claymore to extract ether through visitors’ computers.

For Emma Todd, it was a 2017 conference that transformed her newfound interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain into a passion. As she learned more, she had an epiphany: more people needed to better understand the esoteric world of cryptomining. Not one to be a flaneur, she is now harnessing this opportunity.

On May 18, 2018, Todd will launch the inaugural ADI Cryptocurrency Mining Summit (ADI stands for Advanced Digital Innovation) as a part of Blockchain Week NYC. This comes on the heels of the first ADI Summit which was held in September 2017 in Vancouver, B.C.

The mission of the ADI Cryptocurrency Mining Conference is to introduce new ideas, technologies and techniques around cryptocurrency mining. In addition to an investor panel, there will be discussion forums around security, compliance and legal issues; all critical elements for any successful mining operation. Finally, a hands-on workshop will explain the differences between industrial mining operations and hobby-mining systems, while demonstrating how users can set up their own home-mining rigs.

A number of well-known speakers in the industry will be presenting at the conference, including Samson Mow, CSO of Blockstream; Andrew Kiguel, president and CEO of Hut 8 Mining; Steve Schaeffer, president of MGT Crypto Capital Assets; Tim Bukher, a lawyer and partner at Thompson Bukher LLP; and Amber Scott, founder of Outlier Solutions.

Todd, who comes from a marketing and event planning background, told Bitcoin Magazine that she’s excited about the opportunity to address a largely unmet need by hosting a cryptomining conference.

According to Todd, what sparked the decision to have the conference were the endless questions she was receiving from so many people about mining. “Honestly, I had similar questions. So I started to look for conferences and couldn’t find any.”

Furthermore, Todd has recently witnessed a growing trend among Chinese mining companies that are wanting to come to North America because of increased regulations at home. “They’re asking, ‘Is there anything you can do to help us out?’”

She is hoping the conference will be of value to both the industrial mining sector as well as individual hobby miners. “We anticipate that many attendees will be interested in just the basics of how they can mine. Unfortunately, this is often harder for those without an engineering background. We are going to show people how to navigate this space, including how set up a mining rig. At the end of the day, we are going to show people the best path to mining.”

Besides these hands-on discussions, there will be attention given to some of the broader developments occurring in the mining arena. “By way of example, mining companies have been flocking to Quebec which has caused this Canadian province to put the brakes on due to potential energy and environmental factors. The good news here, given the fluidity of the crypto and blockchain space, is that someone is probably already out there thinking about this issue of greater (mining) energy efficiency.”

For Todd, one of her greatest goals for this conference is for it to engender discussion and allow people to ask questions. “The hope is that people will walk away having discovered things they didn’t know about, wanting to do a bit more investigation. Most importantly, I’d love to see people who are brand new to mining leave with all the tools they need to set a mining operation up for themself.”

She concludes: “To me, knowledge is power. So if we can offer people, the average individual, a chance to learn more about mining so that they can mine for themselves or invest in an operation, than I will absolutely be thrilled to have achieved my goal.”

NEW DELHI: The booming price of bitcoin over the last year has created a buzz around cryptocurrency that goes far beyond technology enthusiasts and free market libertarians. It has also helped draw attention to a number of other virtual currencies looming in its shadow, most notably ethereum.

When bitcoin was the only show in town, things were a lot less complicated for blockchain developers. You either used some variation of colored coins to support your decentralized application or you did not.

Since then, a forest of blockchains has sprouted, each of them unique. Some are permissioned; some are public. Some use proof of work, while others rely on proof of stake. Some have substantial industry support, while some are rarefied and niche. How should decentralized application vendors choose one?

When faced with an overwhelming choice, perhaps the best approach is not to choose at all. Armin Ebrahimi, CEO and co-founder of blockchain identity management company ShoCard, is keeping an open mind. His team decided to adopt a multi-blockchain approach early on in product development, giving deployment teams the flexibility to choose their own. He said this blockchain agnosticism is essential in a fast-moving industry.

“I believe for the foreseeable future we will see blockchains evolve. They will improve and specialize in various forms,” said Ebrahimi. “Even when the underlying technology over the next three to five years becomes more stable and advanced, it is still prudent to be blockchain agnostic.”

By not picking winners, his argument is that ShoCard can more easily be interoperable with other blockchain-based identity management systems. ShoCard’s strategy can also allow them to support enterprises that have standardized their use of blockchain technology.

ShoCard does this by using a mobile application to gather user credentials. It then stores proof of these credentials on the blockchain using a cryptographic hash rather than the credentials themselves. This approach lets the user share only the credentials they are comfortable with, and only with those parties they trust.

The company needed a public blockchain to provide final verification of those credentials, explained Ebrahimi. “Using a public blockchain for the final proof of work means we cannot cheat the system, and the data can be as reliable as the underlying public blockchain that has the final hash,” he said. “This is an important part of the no-trust and no-central-control identity management platform.”

How do you use the trust of a public blockchain without forcing a choice in technology? ShoCard solved the problem using a blockchain adapter layer that acts as a proxy between the ShoCard service layer and the public blockchain layer. By reading and writing records indirectly through the proxy, the company can use a variety of public blockchains to suit user requirements.

ShoCard also designed its architecture to protect itself against public blockchain performance problems by using a mixture of side chains and caches. The sidechain stores the hashed credential data, accessing public blockchain through the API adapter approximately every 20 minutes. The system uses the public blockchain as proof of work while keeping the hashed certification data on sidechains replicated to improve performance.

Because the sidechain sits at the service layer, above the blockchain API adaptor, ShoCard had to choose a technology to run it. It based the sidechain on Ethereum open source, although as a sidechain rather than a public blockchain it will be less susceptible to the congestion now facing the Ethereum network. This means no CryptoKitties to worry about slowing the system.

To further enhance performance, the service layer also caches the public blockchain so that the system can service blockchain verification requests more quickly.

According to ShoCard, blockchain agnosticism provides several other benefits. It future-proofs an application against unexpected developments in the blockchain space, such as a public blockchain becoming obsolete. It also protects users against rising transaction costs, and it shields them from congestion, making the blockchain more scalable. The firm claims the ability to create and certify over 5 million new users, with proof of work, in under 30 minutes.

However, the company still had to settle on a blockchain to manage its token sale, and in March it chose Stellar, created by Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb. Stellar can handle over 1,000 transactions per second with no transaction costs, which Ebrahimi said will make it easier to manage the many microtransactions that a well-prepared ICO can expect when selling tokens.

As blockchain options spread and grow more complex, blockchain agnosticism may become a more frequent fixture in decentralized startups. It stands out as a way of avoiding brittle technology commitments that could burden you with technical debt.

The Meritocracy Chronicle will be a regularly recurring segment, dedicated to discussing and documenting the evolution of the game SFEOS and the principles of crowd founding. See links below for more details on both SFEOS and Crowd Founding.

The term meritocracy can have a variety of connotations and meaning, depending upon users and context. Here it is used only to indicate that the levers of control and influence within a group or activity are best and most justly yielded by those with "skin in the game," i.e., those who have invested time, energy, heart and effort to the creation and sustenance of the activity.

The advent of cryptocurrencies, crypto tokens, smart contracts, and other such tools offer a lot of possibilities that are worth exploring in terms of creation and maintenance of social activities, groups and economies. Building SFEOS is a project to implement and evolve those tools in an environment that is interesting, engaging and desirable, but where catastrophic events have less catastrophic real-world consequences. In other words, we want SFEOS to be a big, beautiful, inviting sandbox which will, hopefully, grow to be a potentially lucrative economic and social reality.

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EOS is scheduled to migrate from the Ethereum network to its own on June 2, 2018, and candidates are excitedly vying for one of 21 supernodes that will support this new mainnet. A mixture of big and little fish, the candidate pool includes upward of 50 different organizations, an overwhelming number of candidates competing for the coveted supernodes come from Chinese organizations.

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The price of bitcoin is creeping up this morning into the mid-$9,000 range.

According to yesterday’s price analysis, whether the market was going to move up or down remained to be seen, but key price levels to watch have been near the bottom of our current trading range in the $8,600s. A breakdown of that price level would likely send us retesting our macro lows in the $6,000s. If this current trading range were to break down, that would be an incredibly bearish signal as that would indicate the overwhelming presence of supply in the market.

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been relatively stringent in its views of both security and utility tokens. The organization is seeking to label all virtual tokens originally distributed through initial coin offerings (ICOs) as securities, which would subject them to very strict regulatory practices and potentially have massive repercussions on their prices.

One of those tokens is ether, which was originally distributed and marketed through presales. Members of the Venture Capital Working Group — an organization comprised of lawyers, investors and cryptocurrency experts working to block the SEC’s decision — argue that ether has become so decentralized, it can no longer be looked at as a security, and should thus be exempt from securities-related laws. Ether is the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap after bitcoin.

April 26, 2018, marked an important step in the fight for “token rights.” A congressional hearing with testimony from the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance (the organization directly responsible for establishing token policies) took place to potentially develop more reasonable approaches toward token sales and their classifications.

Minnesota Representative Tom Emmer led the discussion with SEC division head William Hinman. Throughout the hearing, Emmer voiced his support for cryptocurrency entrepreneurship and innovation, stating, “People tend to fear what they don’t know. If people sailing the oceans at the time of Columbus had believed the world is flat, we wouldn’t have had the great discoveries of the New World.”

The discussion marks a new attitude amongst SEC members. Chairman Jay Clayton has reported in the past that he wants to see all tokens registered through ICOs be classified as securities in the future, but Hinman assured listeners that representatives are trying to view the situation openly and see which entities might exhibit utility-based behaviors.

During the hearing, Rep. Emmer asked Hinman, “Is it possible that a utility token would not be a security because it’s not done for capital formation?”

Hinman replied that it ultimately was possible, as there are tokens that do not have the “hallmarks” of a security. Additionally, he stated that many fundraisers are intended to “develop networks” where a token is strictly intended for use as a buying mechanism for goods or services.

“We can certainly imagine a token where the holder is buying a token for its utility, not as an investment,” Hinman continued. “Especially if it’s a decentralized network where it’s used, and not central actors where there would be information asymmetries where they would know more than token investors.”

In a recent panel discussion during the Distributed: Markets Conference in Chicago, Tennessee blockchain lawyer Gray Sasser of Frost Brown Todd explained that while the SEC has been relatively straightforward in saying where tokens should fall, it has not done a good job of guiding distributors or token builders.

This has been a recurring point of concern. Emmer echoed this sentiment, asking how regulation in the U.S. can be better clarified for U.S. investors. He queried whether it was possible to assist crypto-related business developers to better understand their contributions to tokens that may not be securities, thus avoiding SEC enforcements.

Hinman — likely referring to the Venture Capital Working Group — replied that one of the steps the SEC was taking was “meeting with participants that have these ideas of a token that shouldn’t be regulated as a security” and working with them on how they should be structured. Hinman pointed out that the SEC is heavily engaged in academics, industry and other departments to better explore how everything might work, and that in the long run, the U.S. is “pragmatic” in its support of new technology.

Unfortunately, the hearing also shed light on the lack of education among American leaders concerning cryptocurrencies. Some comments and questions arose, for example, that referenced bitcoin as a security despite the asset already being established as a commodity by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Figures like Aaron Wright — director of blockchain project Cardozo — took to Twitter to express their thoughts and concerns. Wright says that the hearing was amongst the most significant and fulsome commentaries delivered by the SEC regarding token regulation, but that there was also “superficial appeal” to treating bitcoin and related tokens as securities, as many of them are still seen as “speculative assets.”

“I hope that we don’t [go] down that path,” he wrote. “These types of arguments could conceivably gain legs, given the heavy emphasis by some that tokens in some way mutate. Certain tokens could start as a commodity and then mutate into securities as networks consolidate and begin to exhibit less utility. There’s no logical boundaries for these types of arguments so they become dangerous and likely will have unforeseen consequences.”

On the other hand, nonprofit research and advocacy association Coin Center was very positive about the hearing, commenting that the SEC’s views were generally the “right approach” when it came to examining tokens’ usefulness and decentralization to decide whether tokens were securities or utilities.

“It’s awesome to hear the SEC’S Director of Corporation Finance testify that they are looking at these issues with a similar perspective,” said Peter Van Valkenburgh, the organization’s director of research, on the Coin Center blog.

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Over the last few weeks, bitcoin has had its fair share of ups and downs. The volatility has chopped up many of the public bulls and bears alike as the market has struggled to find a consistent direction for more than a couple of weeks at a time. The market is currently in an interesting space as many macro trends have been broken. One major trend that was broken last week was the macro demand line shown below:

Figure 1: BTC-USD, 12-HR Candles, Macro Supply Line Broken

The break of the supply represents a macro change of character for the market and is undoubtedly a bullish signal. After bottoming around $6,500, bitcoin had a very strong, sustained rally for a 40% market value increase over a relatively small amount of time. Currently, the market is experiencing some turbulence as we test well known resistance points where lots of overhanging is present. Our current price level is the beginning of the hypodermic trend we saw late last year as we broke free of the parabolic envelope shown below:

Figure 2: BTC-USD, 12-HR Candles, Hypodermic Trend Breakthrough

The Hypodermic Trend is where the FOMO, irrational buying began and left many investors holding underwater positions. This FOMO resulted in tons of overhanging supply and I don’t expect us to make any upward progress without a solid fight from the bitcoin bears.

This recent markup came about as a result of a solid accumulation phase on the 2-HR time frame that lead into reaccumulation and has now pushed us into a new trading range that is currently testing the overhanging supply. The figure below outlines the micro accumulation leading into our current trading range:Figure 3: BTC-USD, 2-HR Candles, Micro Markup into New Trading Range

Our current trading illustrates the presence of supply by the sellers:Figure 4: BTC-USD, 60-Min Candles, Current Trading Range

It is unclear whether this current trading range is distribution (top of the rally) or reaccumulation (temporary stop before a resumption of the uptrend), but what is clear is the presence of supply. And the presence of supply makes total sense given the current price level.

Whether the market is going to move up or down remains to be seen, but key price levels to watch are near the bottom of our current trading range in the $8,600s. A breakdown of that price level would likely send us retesting our macro lows in the $6,000s. If this current trading range breaks down, that will be an incredibly bearish signal as that indicates the overwhelming presence of supply in the market. If we manage to test the $6,000s, I find it highly unlikely that we rally without establishing new lows once again.

If we manage to establish a clear reaccumulation trading range and break upward, I expect to see resistance around the 50% Fibonacci value shown below:Figure 5: BTC-USD, 12HR Candles, Macro Resistance

Summary:

A major macro downtrend broke last week that marks a potential, new macro uptrend.

A large amount of supply is present as we test the current price levels that also match the hypodermic breakout of last year’s parabolic trend.

We are in a trading range and are testing supply as the market decides whether we will move up or down. Key price levels exist just above our trading range. If we reject those price levels and our current trading range, expect to see a retest of the macro low in the $6,500 range.

As institutional capital in the crypto space increases regularly, the need for blockchain technology and related enterprise support is at an all-time high, and several companies are working hard to provide both as the arena expands.

One of those companies is Coefficient Ventures, a crypto fund set on financing blockchain systems worldwide. Thus far, the company has made over 25 investments in companies and applications like Filecoin for decentralized storage; Raiden for scalability; and Zeppelin to improve smart contract capabilities.

Speaking with Bitcoin Magazine, founding partner Chance Du described how she sees a central role for blockchain investment across all sectors of the global economy.

The global financial industry features significant flaws in its current design. Two billion of the world’s people have virtually no access to financial services, while an additional four billion have very limited access. Du says she began investing in blockchain technology in 2017 because she believes it can remove these barricades and allow for a “more accessible and democratized” financial infrastructure.

“The internet has been an extraordinary conduit for uploading, exchanging and disseminating information,” she explains. “However, until 2009, if you wanted to go and exchange value online, there was no way to do that. Whether it was data, money, the title to your car or home, you had to do it in a way that didn’t involve legacy institutions such as banks, governments and clearing houses. With blockchain technology, people can have bank accounts in their pockets. They no longer need these legacy institutions that have kept so many consumers out. Blockchain technology offers a value protocol which allows for the frictionless exchange of value.”

Hoping to assist businesses that can remove financial pain points from our monetary systems, Coefficient Ventures also offers extensive start-up support. Its current advisory portfolio includes projects like TomoChain, which seeks to build blockchain and crypto-based partnerships between national markets; IoTeX, a decentralized network for the Internet of Things; and Havven, a payment network and stable coin system based in Australia. Du says the next step involves collecting capital from accredited investors to fund these projects and incentivizing contributors to “build tools and services” to facilitate them.

As with all business enterprises, challenges have emerged that have made it hard for start-up VCs to stay on track. Du notes that the financial industry is a relatively saturated space, with hundreds of crypto funds and traditional VC funds joining the “ICO investing race” every day. Competition is extremely fierce, and carving out the right business strategies isn’t always easy.

Regulation and the constant changes it presents has also made things difficult. Du says one of her main goals is to see the cryptocurrency arena thrive and she recognizes the necessity to adhere to ever-changing regulations in order to bring further legitimacy to the space.

“We must keep a close eye on every country’s regulatory environment and adjust our strategies accordingly,” Du says. “Token exchange listings, for example, are directly affected by regulatory shifts. Many exchanges are not allowed to list any new tokens during strict regulatory days, and we’ve had to find alternatives for fund liquidity.”

One strategy that has worked for Du involved turning to decentralized exchanges or DEXs. Users’ own wallets are utilized to transfer and collect funds, and transactions are published directly on the blockchain, thus eliminating several risks one might encounter through centralized platforms.

“We are also considering tokenizing our own fund, but we must be cautious to remain in compliance with the SEC,” she continued. “I think the whole world is watching the moves of the SEC. They’ve proven quite adequate when it comes to dealing with emerging technologies like cryptocurrencies. I believe once the SEC has figured out how to treat crypto, other countries will mirror its moves, but right now, governments don’t seem to understand them well enough yet.”

While hostility still seems to exist toward digital assets, Du suggests legislative systems will eventually adapt to become more accepting. She even compares cryptocurrency to Uber, which in the beginning, she states, was the object of speculation amongst those who felt it was breaking certain legal barriers.

“Uber got tons of legal challenges in the beginning, and it drove regulation once it was adopted by the masses,” she explained. “The demand of Uber from the public was so high that the local laws were forced to adapt. The same will happen for cryptocurrency.”

In the end, Du believes that blockchain and digital assets present advantages often missing from traditional finance mechanisms.

“Traditional VCs have burdens in the new game because of the old investing philosophies they carry,” she says. “Things don’t work the same way, anymore. Compared to traditional VCs, new crypto funds move fast and understand the underlying value of crypto projects.”

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April 23rd brought core and app developers for the SAFE Network from all over the world to Ayr, Scotland for SAFE Dev Con 2018.

In this episode we hit the highpoints with Dug Campbell, head of Marketing and Outreach with MaidSafe.

The full video of the event is linked below, and the different speakers should soon be available as individual videos on MaidSafe's YouTube channel soon, if not be time of this podcast going live. (See channel link below.)

Music

Music for this episode: Safe Crossroads Beta, an original piece composed and performed by Nicholas Koteskey of Two Faced Heroes